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LastoLite Hilite background lit with a Calumet Genesis 400 on the right, fill from an SB-600 diffused with vellum paper on a DIY diffuser made from a tissue box on camera left.
Long and lithe table extends solid oak surface almost ten feet over minimalist, sculptural metal base. Discrete recessed base floats tabletop on six slim, organically tapered legs. Clean wood surface flaunts its hardwood appeal thanks to a four-step finish that gives it the look of salted oak.
Excavated from site E2970 Timolin, N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Contract 5.
Photographed by: Sara Nylund, 2009
Client: Kildare County Council
Funding body: National Roads Authority (NRA) with funds from the NDP and Transport 21
Lakeshore beach gravel in the Holocene of Minnesota, USA.
This is modern beach gravel along the northern shoreline of western Lake Superior. Most of the clasts are pebble-sized (= 4 to 64 mm). The pebbles are derived from lakeshore outcrops of basalt that are part of a lava flow-dominated succession called the North Shore Volcanic Series. This is equivalent to & the same age as the Portage Lake Volcanic Series of northern Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula (www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/albums/72157632266738191). The North Shore and Portage Lake successions are ~1.1 billion years old and represent basalt lava flows, plus minor sedimentary rocks, that filled up an ancient rift valley. This old rift is the Lake Superior segment of the Mid-Continent Rift System, a tear in the ancient North American paleocontinent of Laurentia (see: minerals.usgs.gov/science/midcontinent-rift-minerals/imag...). Tectonic rifting started along this tear, exactly like the modern-day East African Rift Valley. Laurentia's Mid-Continent Rift System started and then stopped and was subsequently filled and buried. This ancient failed rift is now exposed on either side of Lake Superior in North America's Great Lakes.
The pebbles were transported and deposited by waves and longshore currents.
Provenance: North Shore Volcanic Series, Keweenawan Supergroup, upper Mesoproterozoic, ~1.1 Ga
Locality: Lake Superior shoreline on the western side of Burlington Bay, eastern side of the town of Two Harbors, northeastern Minnesota, USA
I've always been quite fond of the E38 7-series. Seems lithe and athetic-looking for such a big car, plus it's the last of the pre-Bangle big Bimmers. Like the wheels too, though the tires could stand more sidewall.
West End, Richmond, VA
Long and lithe table extends solid oak surface almost ten feet over minimalist, sculptural metal base. Discrete recessed base floats tabletop on six slim, organically tapered legs. Clean wood surface flaunts its hardwood appeal thanks to a four-step finish that gives it the look of salted oak.
Last weekend I attended an "Indian relic show" (that's what the managers call it) with my husband. It was quite amazing. George is an archaeologist and knows about this material, but he is not a private collector. He represents scientific archaeology; most material recovered from scientific digs ends up in museums and universities. But the private side continues to flourish. Most of this material has been collected from the surface of the ground, or nearly so. But some of it may have been excavated--many Indian burial mounds were destroyed, sadly, by private persons long ago, before the birth of academic archaeology in the late 19th century.
Many of these guys (and they are almost all guys) know a great deal about the subject and have huge collections, as you can see. This meeting happens just one day a year. Buying and selling does go on, but a big part of it is appreciation and "education", as they like to say.
Whatever one thinks of the politics of such collecting, one can't help but admire the fantastic art and craft of the indigenous peoples who occupied this continent before the coming of Europeans. It was quite a roomful!! This is just a sample of the images I shot. (Ceiling light reflections impossible to avoid!)
Lithic breccia from the Quaternary of Ohio, USA.
Sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of loose sediments. Loose sediments become hard rocks by the processes of deposition, burial, compaction, dewatering, and cementation.
There are three categories of sedimentary rocks:
1) Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments produced by weathering & erosion of any previously existing rocks.
2) Biogenic sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments that were once-living organisms (plants, animals, micro-organisms).
3) Chemical sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments formed by inorganic chemical reactions. Most sedimentary rocks have a clastic texture, but some are crystalline.
Breccia is an uncommon, coarse-grained, siliciclastic sedimentary rock. Breccias form in many ways (sedimentary breccias, volcanic breccias, tectonic breccias/fault breccias, collapse breccias, boiling breccias, hydrothermal breccias, xenolith breccias, seismite breccias, injectite breccias, etc.), but they all have the same general appearance. Sedimentary breccias contain a mix of large & small grains. The large grains (gravel - pebbles or cobbles or boulders) are angular to subangular in shape, and they are surrounded by a finer-grained matrix, usually sand or mud.
The juvenile breccia shown above is principally composed of clasts eroded from Illinoian-aged glacial till (= Middle Pleistocene). The blackish-colored rock is flint (= chert). The clasts have become cemented without subsequent significant burial.
Age: Late Pleistocene or Holocene
Locality: Taft Reserve, western Flint Ridge, southeastern Licking County, east-central Ohio, USA
Serving as Count Dooku's most-trusted assassin, Asajj Ventress is a lithe beauty possessing both serpentine grace and lethality.
Another portrait from Star Wars Weekends 2010.
Long and lithe table extends solid oak surface almost ten feet over minimalist, sculptural metal base. Discrete recessed base floats tabletop on six slim, organically tapered legs. Clean wood surface flaunts its hardwood appeal thanks to a four-step finish that gives it the look of salted oak.
Beautiful young gymnast working out outdoors on a set of colourful metal bars hanging by her legs against a cloudy blue sky You can purchase this photo for commercial use in high-res and without watermark here: j.mp/greycoastphoto || If you have any issues with finding specific image, please contact me: danr@yandex.com
This is a colorful mix of small lithic pebbles (larger than 4 millimeters) and granules (2 to 4 millimeters) at a modern marine beach in California. The reds and greens are chert. The dark-colored clasts are basalt. The oranges are carnelian, derived from vesicle fillings in basalt (see Elder, 2001).
Locality: Rodeo Beach, western side of the Marin Peninsula, northwest of San Francisco, Pacific Coast of central California, USA (37° 49' 50.84" North latitude, 122° 32' 16.30" West longitude)
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Reference cited:
Elder (2001) - Geology of the Golden Gate Headlands. in: Geology and natural history of the San Francisco Bay area: a field-trip guidebook. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2188: 61-86.
Wake series (Lithic Udipsamments) soils form on highly resistant felsic igneous intrusions of the Piedmont in North Carolina. This soil has been buried by slopewash and human transported materials (0-70 cm depth). The original surface was over a sandy Bw horizon and lithic contact (R). These soils are one of the few upland Entisols found in this region of the Carolinas.
Soil profile: Mariscal very channery loam, in an area of Mariscal-Rock outcrop complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes. Note the varying thickness of the fractured limestone bedrock and interbedded marl. (Soil Survey of Big Bend National Park, Texas; by: James Gordon, Soil Scientist, James A. Douglass, Soil Scientist, and Dr. Lynn E. Loomis, Soil Scientist, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: An area of Mariscal-Terlingua complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes. Chino grama, creosotebush, skeletonleaf goldeneye, pricklypear, and yucca are on this site. The Mariscal part of this map unit is in the Flagstone Hill 8-14" PZ ecological site of MLRA 81D—Southern Edwards Plateau. The Terlingua part is in the Basalt Hills ecological site, Hot Desert Shrub vegetative zone of MLRA 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains.
The Mariscal series consists of very shallow or shallow, well drained soils that are moderately permeable above a very slowly permeable limestone bedrock. These soils formed in residuum and colluvium derived from beds of platy limestone. These soils are on gently sloping to very steep uplands. Slope ranges from 1 to 60 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 280 mm (11 inches) and the mean annual air temperature is about 21.1 degrees C (70.0 degrees F).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, hyperthermic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
Soil moisture: The moisture control section is dry in all parts more than three fourths of the time the soil temperature exceeds 5.0 degrees C (41 degrees F). Intermittently moist in some part of the soil moisture control section during June to September. More than 60 percent of the annual rainfall occurs during that period. The soil does not receive significant amounts of moisture during winter months. Ustic aridic soil moisture regime.
Mean annual soil temperature: 22.0 to 25.6 degrees C (72 to 78 degrees F)
Depth to bedrock: mainly 10 to 30 cm, but ranging up to 50 cm (4 to 12 inches, but ranging up to 20 inches).
Particle size control section (weighted average):
Calcium carbonate equivalent: 40 to 70 percent in the fine earth fraction and ranges to 80 percent when less than 20 millimeter fragments are included.
Rock fragments: 35 to 85 percent channers or flagstones.
USE AND VEGETATION: Used as rangeland. Vegetation physiognomy is desert shrubland. Dominant woody plants are creosotebush, lechuguilla, feather dalea, yucca, catclaw acacia, and whitethorn acacia. Grasses include chino grama, black grama, fluffgrass, and threeawns.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Southern Edwards Plateau (MLRA 81D) and Trans Pecos (MLRA 42) of Texas. The series is extensive.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/bigbendT...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/M/MARISCAL.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Lithic Aquisalids and landscape in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
(Classification by UAE Keys to Soil Taxonomy)
Lithic Aquisalids are the Aquisalids that have lithic contact within 50 cm of the soil surface. Lithic contact is a boundary between soil and continuous, coherent, underlying material. The underlying material must be sufficiently coherent to make hand-digging with a spade impractical. The material below a lithic contact must be in a strongly cemented or more cemented rupture-resistance class. Commonly, the material is indurated.
Aquisalids are the Salids that are saturated with water in one or more layers within 100 cm of the mineral soil surface for 1 month or more in normal years. These salty soils are in wet areas in the deserts where capillary rise and evaporation of water concentrate the salts near the surface. Some of these soils have redoximorphic depletions and concentrations. In other soils redoximorphic features may not be evident because of a high pH and the associated low redox potential, which inhibit iron and manganese reduction. These soils occur dominantly in depressional areas where ground water saturates the soils at least part of the year. The vegetation on these soils generally is sparse, consisting of salt-tolerant shrubs, grasses, and forbs. Although these soils may hold water at a tension less than 1500 kPa, the dissolved salt content makes the soils physiologically dry.
Salids are most common in depressions (playas) in the deserts or in closed basins in the wetter areas bordering the deserts. In North Africa and in the Near East, such depressions are referred to as Sabkhas depending on the presence or absence of surface water for prolonged periods. Under the arid environment and hot temperatures, accumulation of salts commonly occurs when there is a supply of salts and a net upward movement of water in the soils. In some areas a salic horizon has formed in salty parent materials without the presence of ground water. The most common form of salt is sodium chloride (halite), but sulfates (thenardite, mirabilite, and hexahydrite) and other salts may also occur.
Salids are Aridisols that are unsuitable for agricultural use, unless the salts are leached out. Leaching the salts is an expensive undertaking, particularly if there is no natural outlet for the drainage water.
Aridisols, as their name implies, are soils in which water is not available to mesophytic plants for long periods. During most of the time when the soils are warm enough for plants to grow, soil water is held at potentials less than the permanent wilting point or has a content of soluble salts great enough to limit the growth of plants other than halophytes, or both. The concept of Aridisols is based on limited soil moisture available for the growth of most plants. In areas bordering deserts, the absolute precipitation may be sufficient for the growth of some plants. Because of runoff or a very low storage capacity of the soils, or both, however, the actual soil moisture regime is aridic.
[www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservation-basics/natural-resource-co...]
For more information about soil classification in the UAE, visit:
vdocument.in/united-arab-emirates-keys-to-soil-taxonomy.h...
The original stone may have been a megalithic marker. The oldest depictions show a larger stone and site it at a different place to that of the cage protected current lithic marker. The outdoor rural court at the larger Birlay Stone under the shade of the Birley Tree first found Marion Lillie who was locally called either the Rigwoodie, or the Ringwoody Witch not guilty. The Rigwoody Witch was later accused again, the Rigwoody attached to her name and label of witch is from the Scots Rigwoody meaning thin, or bony. Her second recorded trial has her sent to further courts with a guilty verdict to present to them. Some suppose that she would have been found guilty there and put to death as a witch. Before the imperfect legal process was concluded Marion died and was buried in Spott Church grounds showing she was not convicted at the time of her demise.
Whether the either the process of accusation and defence were contributing factors in Marion’s death, or not the records are not present to say, yet there is a record, “Many witches burnt on Spott Loan,” this follows Marion’s death and some believe that these many were 13, maybe a number not recorded, as 13 are considered by some an ideal number for a coven and 13 has several wicked and even evil connotations for some. The records and several authors comments are visible through the links below. Some record Marion and link her to a Marion Lillie and some record her as the last witch burned in Scotland. We will never have that perspective that ran throughout the times when Europeans thought Witches were to be discovered, tortured and put to death. That perspective that allowed many to dispose of often elderly women who some saw as hanging on to what they waited too long for. Through the death of the falsely accused person others could be rid of the living obstacle by convicting them and killing them as a witch.
Before society could allow for people differing from ‘the norm’ there were many targets to haul before what passed for justice. Those times for some are not that far away and we can at times act like such victimisation is still completely acceptable. Every culture has people at risk as we seem to realise that high ideals are for art, culture and dreams and that low acceptance is still fuelling violence and inherited intolerance is still simmering ready to burn any that happen to be seen as Witch, whatever it meant back then and for whatever it means today. Witch is a word we say, for some it is used as an insult and a slander. Witches past and present are the ones victimised and victorious in reclaiming our rights to be different and to accepted, to be in need as we all are of the harmony and the balance that comes through tolerance. Witch is just one word that people have used to label and dehumanise another person to such extreme that a Witch being murdered was seen a blessing.
The links below give the history better than I have above.
This was part of a journey to other sites. Some are listed below.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
The Witches Stone. Spott Community Association
www.spottvillage.org.uk/witches-stone-2/
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.johngraycentre.org/collections/getrecord/ELHER_MEL1560/
Spott Church
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Also The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic Portal
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?x=368000&y=676600
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Mace-head or naturally holed nodule, roughly polished. From the Imperial College Sports Ground site, London.
shot for Vortex: Fri www.vrtxmag.com/media/photo/wand-chastity-belt-the-ghost-... and Sat www.vrtxmag.com/media/photo/twin-peaks-tacocat-public-eye...
Bartholomäus Spranger, Antwerpen 1546 - Prag 1611
Herkules und Omphale - Herakles and Omphale (ca. 1585)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
In an opulent bedroom, the lithe Omphale, whom Hercules has been condemned to serve by the Delphic oracle, stands naked with her back to the viewer holding his club over her shoulder like a baseball player awaiting the next pitch. Hercules sits to the left wearing a feminine pink frock; he’s handling spinning implements, performing an activity ordinarily reserved for women.
Source: The New York Times
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Der flämische Maler ging nach der Ausbildung in seiner Heimatstadt Antwerpen nach Frankreich und dann nach Italien, wo er erst für Alessandro Farnese und dann als päpstlicher Maler für Pius V. tätig war. Nach dem Tod des Papstes wechselte er nach Wien an den Hof Kaiser Maximilians II und nach dessen Tod an den Hof Kaiser Rudolf II. in Prag. Als Kammermaler erhielt nicht nur vom Hof sondern auch von einflussreichen Persönlichkeiten Aufträge, gehörte zu den angesehensten Malern seiner Zeit und wurde 1595 in den Adelsstand erhoben. Sein Werk im manieristischen Stil umfasst mythologische und allegorische Bilder, oft mit erotisch anmutende Szenen, die dem Geschmack Kaiser Rudolfs II. sehr entgegenkamen.
This polished axe fragment has be reused as a core to make new tools. From the RMC land site, London.
ZOEY ... is a petite, 2 year old SEAL POINT SIAMESE. She is spayed and has her claws. Zoey has a lean and lithe figure, weighing in at only 5.5 lbs. She was left at a local Chicago animal shelter by a 'non-cat' guy who had gotten her from his girlfriend and he never liked the cat. Despite this, Zoey is extremely affectionate and she is looking for someone to love her. She has not been love the love and attention that she needs, and she is seeking a forever family that wants a sweet Siamese girl who will participate in their life. She loves hanging out in high places where she can survey all safely but will joyfully come down to greet her foster family. Zoey is scared of dogs but could accept another cat with slow and careful introductions. After her traumatic experience at the shelter, Zoey would do best with a quiet household that either has calm children or only adults. ADOPTION FEE $175. FOSTERED IN OAK PARK, IL.
Heavily burnt axe or chisel and chisel arrowhead from the Imperial College Sports Ground site, London.
The screaming headsculpt on the Caucasian-head version is a bit controversial, but I think it's unique and interesting. I want to stick it on the KP01 body to make a Tarzan custom because I never thought of Tarzan as a massive, big, bulky guy. He seemed to be more lithe and agile.
KWK05
Excavated from site E2620 Ballybar Lower, N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme, Contract 4.
Illustrated by: Sara Nylund, 2008
Client: Kildare County Council
Funding body: National Roads Authority (NRA) with funds from the NDP and Transport 21
Mace-head or naturally holed nodule, roughly polished. From the Imperial College Sports Ground site, London.
For Minerva the Inconsolable Cat...& the art of being alone...together
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Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms
the fruits, that plums the grains, that curls seaweeds
filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes
and your mouth that has the smile of the water.
A black yearning sun is braided into the strands
of your black mane, when you stretch your arms.
You play with the sun as with a little brook
and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes.
Girl lithe and tawny, nothing draws me toward you.
Everything bears me further away, as though you were noon.
You are the frenzied youth of the bee,
the drunkenness of the wave, the power of the wheat ear.
My sombre heart searches for you, nevertheless,
and I love your joyful body, your slender and flowing
voice.
Dark butterfly, sweet and definitive
like the wheat-filed and the sun, the poppy and the water.
~ Pabo Neruda, "Girl Lithe and Tawny"
These lacustrine lithic clasts are composed of carbonates. They have eroded from local outcrops of Cambrian and Ordovician sedimentary rocks.
Locality: Lake Champlain shoreline, small cove north of Lone Rock Point, northwestern side of the town of Burlington, northwestern Chittenden County, northwestern Vermont, USA (44° 29' 41.33" North latitude, 73° 14' 49.46" West longitude)
Fall back too close, you ain't even know me
Trust my brothers from way back from the nosebleeds
Christian Dior, spend it like they owe me
Gotta stay select, don't come around to me
Better come correct, different lives that we lead
I'm in that Nike tech and the bank with Louis V
But, he turns in to a loud crazy dog when facing a pack of teenagers - when he goes nuts so do the other two. Lithely about drove us all nuts at Aaron and Jenny's house.
Visitors to the Pequot Museum experienced a 17th c. military and civilian living-history encampment from the Pequot War (1636-1637) and King Philip’s War (1675-1677) periods. Including musket and bow shooting demonstrations; campfire cooking; lithic tool making; flint knapping demonstrations; period blacksmithing; and English militia drills.
Visitors also had the opportunity to listen to U.S. Army Major (Dr.) Jason Warren discuss his book, Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676. The book refocuses Connecticut’s role in the war and discusses how the colony achieved success by establishing a policy of moderation towards the Native groups living within its borders.
Supported in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
I took this photo at the 2012 Texas Renaissance Festival in Todd's Mission, TX near Houston in October 2012. This was the 2nd weekend of the TRF and it featured a fairy theme,
The TRF is huge - you really need two days to take it in - there are stage acts, performers, jousts, belly and Brazilian dancers, chain mail models, and pirates everywhere you look - but the best part for me is just walking around people watching - it is incredible. There are so many people in elaborate costumes that my neck hurt from constantly looking in all directions - and they didn't mind me shooting them. What a blast - this is something I'm really looking forward too each year.
This polished axe fragment has been reused as a core to make more flint tools. From the Imperial Sports College Grounds site, London.
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'I like you too," she said. They no longer talked about love, only of like. Talk of love made them feel banished and of the dark ages. Like was beginning and new; like was when you grew wings that made you lithe and slightly interesting for a moment, love was when those wings kept growing, became thick and unseemly-- tarp-like -- and then smothered you; and wrapped you up, like a bodybag.
Though still, he wanted to say, 'I love you'. He was conditioned.
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pictures people draw of their house when they are nine
a line for the sky a blue line for the sky
i am impressed with technology
i want to go to every panera bread mega store in the state of ohio on the same night and gather all of the bagels that they will throw away and climb on to the top of a five story building with a 35-85 lense and photograph the thousands of bagels they will throw away
and make a print of this and grind it to a pulp
and make more paper bagels out of it
and throw them all in a dumpster outside of crocker park shopping center
where i saw a boy who looked eleven wearing a rage against the machine tshirt
in an upscale shopping center
the lifeshare community blood service woke me up two hours before i had to go to work today on the phone and said maureen sill we are in great need of your blood because you have type o negative blood and that is like gold to us and we are offering you an incentive now
and i said, what more kind of incentive can there be to giving blood other than "you will save someone's life" TWO OR THREE TIMES!
and the boy on the phone said, well, everyone gets put into a raffle for a one hundred dollar gasoline gift card
and i rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and said, oh really and he said, yeah
and i actually said, "that's stupid" and asked, does your company sell the blood or donate it, because i know some companies sell it
and he said we are nonprofit
and i said oh, okay, even though that didn't answer my question
and he said see you on tuesday?
and i said yeah, see you on tuesday
and then i hung up and tried to go back to sleep but i couldn't go back to sleep
excess paper bagels
deliberate gasoline gift cards
rare and perfect, type o negative, you want my blood
a part of me that everyone could use!
a part of me that everyone could use!
a part of me that everyone on the entire fucking planet could use!
the thought of that makes me insane, because it makes me feel so useful that i could almost pass out
victor had a dream where a girl paid attention to him for ten or fifteen minutes and that he fell in love with her on accident and in the dream when they kissed he was paranoid that she was drunk and did not really like him and that she just liked the idea of him or anyone at all and he did not say this in the dream but the girl knew anyway and pulled away and said, i am a little drunk but i still like you, a little anyway, but i probably won't forever, just right now
and he said he woke up and cried very briefly and then went to work
my hands feel covered in candle wax that was recently peeled off with a dull vegetable peeler
andy is leaving for scotland tomorrow
i want to have a conversation with you about the "cruelty of abstraction"
and the devices of feelings we forgot were possible
i said something to a man at work today and he said i can't wait to write about that later, and i can't remember what i said but i know he liked it
what kind of cheese if your favorite, a little boy asks me during story hour
and i say none
and he says, no, NACHO cheese
i say i think you got the joke wrong
he says ha, ha, ha.
i say, you're hilarious
he runs away to find a toy train
is it wrong that i fall in love with every little boy i meet
i want to marry them
they are the most loveable people in the world